I hunt paedophiles across the globe on the dark web using the tiniest details to identify them. This is the case that keeps me up at night... and why things are getting worse

The home video was just a few ­seconds long; a girl in her bedroom. No name, no location, just a few words in ­English, but not enough to determine the child's nationality. Nothing identifying at all.
Hackaday

Building An Analogue Computer To Simulate Neurons

The rapidly-improving speed and versatility of digital computers has mostly driven analogue computers out of use in modern ...
InfoWorld

What I learned using Claude Sonnet to migrate Python to Rust

Using an AI coding assistant to migrate an application from one programming language to another wasn’t as easy as it looked. Here are three takeaways.
Purdue University

Improving robots’ social skills: Purdue professor programs robots for improved nonverbal communication to better support humans

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Friendly robots, the ones people love to love, are quirky: R2-D2, C-3PO, WALL-E, BB-8, Marvin, Roz and Baymax. They’re emotional, prone to panic or bossy, empathetic and able to ...